Empirical evaluation of the understandability of architectural component diagrams

Stevanetic, Srdjan; Javed, Muhammad Atif; Zdun, Uwe

doi:10.1145/2578128.2578230

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“…For instance, dependency structure matrix metric has been used to measure maintainability [16,17]. Another examples are the number of components, connections, symbols, and interfaces to measure architectural understandability [18,19].…”

Section: Handling Quality Attributes In Model-based Engineeringmentioning

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Quality-aware Architectural Model Transformations in Adaptive Mashups User Interfaces

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Martínez‐Fernández

Ameller

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Mashup user interfaces provides their functionality through the combination of different services. The integration of such services can be solved by using reusable and third-party components. Furthermore, these interfaces must be adapted to user preferences, context changes, user interactions and component availability. Model transformation is a useful mechanism to address this adaptation but normally these operations only focus on the functional requirements. In this sense, quality attributes should be included in the adaptation process to obtain the best adapted mashup user interface. This paper proposes a generic quality-aware transformation process to support the adaptation of software architectures. The transformation process has been applied in ENIA, a geographic information system, by constructing a specific quality model for the adaptation of mashup user interfaces. This model is taken into account for evaluating the different transformation alternatives and choosing the one that maximizes the quality assessments. The approach has been validated by a set of adaptation scenarios that are intended to maximize different quality factors and therefore apply distinct combinations of metrics.

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Section: Handling Quality Attributes In Model-based Engineeringmentioning

confidence: 99%

Quality-aware Architectural Model Transformations in Adaptive Mashups User Interfaces

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Martínez‐Fernández

Ameller

et al. 2018

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“…For instance, dependency structure matrix metric has been used to measure maintainability [7,15]. Another examples are the number of components, connections, symbols, and interfaces to measure architectural understandability [19,22]. In the next section, we use these metrics and propose others to measure the relevant QAs in adaptive systems.…”

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Exploring Quality-Aware Architectural Transformations at Run-Time: The ENIA Case

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Martínez‐Fernández

Ameller

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Model and Data Engineering

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Abstract. Adapting software systems at run-time is a key issue, especially when these systems consist of components used as intermediary for human-computer interaction. In this sense, model transformation techniques have a widespread acceptance as a mechanism for adapting and evolving the software architecture of such systems. However, existing model transformations often focus on functional requirements, and quality attributes are only manually considered after the transformations are done. This paper aims to improve the quality of adaptations and evolutions in component-based software systems by taking into account quality attributes within the model transformation process. To this end, we present a quality-aware transformation process using software architecture metrics to select among many alternative model transformations. Such metrics evaluate the quality attributes of an architecture. We validate the presented quality-aware transformation process in ENIA, a geographic information system whose user interfaces are based on coarsegrained components and need to be adapted at run-time.

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Metrics for Software Design and Architectures

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Automotive Software Architectures

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Empirical evaluation of the understandability of architectural component diagrams

Cited by 10 publications

References 11 publications

Quality-aware Architectural Model Transformations in Adaptive Mashups User Interfaces

Quality-aware Architectural Model Transformations in Adaptive Mashups User Interfaces

Exploring Quality-Aware Architectural Transformations at Run-Time: The ENIA Case

Metrics for Software Design and Architectures

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